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Title
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en_US
Five or more Fables
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Description
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Clarice and Alfred E. Hamill
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Creator
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Hamill, Alfred E.
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Contributor
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Hamill, Clarice
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:49:30Z
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2005-08
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1951
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:49:30Z
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Date Issued
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1951
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Abstract
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This little paperbound booklet has nine items, each with an envoy at its end. I am presuming that Clarice and Alfred E. Hamill, who sent this as their Christmas greetings in 1951, are the authors and illustrators. These are light-hearted poems with a good punch line. The first has the lion trying to rally beasts against mankind. The bear, the crocodile, and the fox walk away from his urgings. Finally he turns to a mouse, whose only response is that he cannot because he has a little cold. In the second poem, a cormorant feeds on the fish in a wonderful pond, but whatever selection method he uses, he thins the pond and fattens himself. The result is that he cannot fly farther than a chicken and is devoured by foxes. The last envoy, after a poem on an iguana, may be among the best (22): Now the moral from this pimply/Reptile for us all, if queasy,/Can be stated very simply:/It is only--Take it easy! There is, by the way, a beautifully colored dressed mouse on the title-page. That is the only illustration in the booklet.
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Identifier
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5828 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Centaurs
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Lake Forest, IL
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Subject
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PN6110.F2 F58 1951
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Clarice and Alfred E. Hamill
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole